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Wedding & Pre-Wedding specialist in Okinawa | Pete Leong
If your looking for a friendly reliable photographer for your wedding or engagement location shoot here in Okinawa, Japan or other destination you've come to the right place! I've photographed over 1000 in my 20 or so years as a wedding photographer and have many happy clients from all over the world. For specific wedding photo samples check out www.fotoshisa.com.

Pic of Daddy & Jet used on US nation wide poster!?!

A few days ago I blogged about checking up on where my images sold on iStockphoto have ended up being used using Googles image search. Well just for fun I thought I would drop this shot of me and Jet playing around in a park in Fukushima into Googles search to see what it came up with.

Needless to say I was quite surprised to find that this photo ended up being printed in the U.S nation wide on 24 x 36 inch posters used to promote National Stress Awareness Month for the U.S Department of Health & Human Services.

I had originally just uploaded the image to iStock just to see if it would sell for a laugh. Oddly enough not only did it pass iStocks strict image quality standards (once I removed a couple of well known brand names from the bottom of Jet's shoes and my jacket) but it also sold a few times.

How was the image shot?

I've always loved making images portraying movement. Especially by "dragging the shutter" or making a longer exposure then normal. To do this I mounted my old Canon 40D with Sigma EX 15mm fisheye that I owned back then on the end of a monopod with a ball head mounted on that so that I could face the camera back towards Jet and myself. I then used a cable release to trigger the camera in TV (shutter priority mode) and set the shutter speed to around 15th/sec and started spinning.

It took a few goes to get one that Jet & myself were perfectly sharp but its not too hard and great fun to do!

Here's a screen grab of the image also being used in an article promoting health and relaxation.

Give Google images search a try for your self with some of your more popular images. You might be surprised to see where they turn up!